Over the past several weeks we've taken a look at a couple of products from Intel's X79 Express platform, launched just seven weeks ago. The past two products we've looked at from ASUS and ECS each had their own spin on the features they provided, each having its own flavor that lets each stand out. Gigabyte recently revamped their own line-ups, offering several different products with different color schemes, and features tailored towards specific audiences. Today we take a look at Gigabyte's mid-range X79 offering, the GA-X79-UD5. Gigabyte has been in the news recently with their X79 products, with a BIOS recall and a launch of a new BIOS that at first glance aims to offer performance not seen anywhere else. With many questions to be asked, we fired up the GA-X79-UD5 to get some answers, and set the story straight.
Specifications
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| CPU SUPPORT: | 2nd Gen Intel Core i7 processor family for the LGA 2011 Socket |
| POWER DESIGN: | CPU Power: 14 Phase PCH Power: 1 Phase Memory Power: 1+1 Phase |
| CHIPSET: | Intel X79 Express |
| INTEGRATED GRAPHICS: | Not Applicable |
| MEMORY: | 8 x DIMM, Max. 64 GB, DDR3 1066 to DDR3 2133 |
| BIOS: | Dual AMI EFI BIOS with 2x 64 Mb Flash ROM |
| SLOTS: | 3 x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (x16/x8/x16) 1 x PCI slot 2 x PCIe 2.0 x1 slots |
| HDD CONNECTIVITY: | 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Intel X79) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (Intel X79) 4 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (Marvell 9172) 2 x eSATA 6.0 Gb/s (Marvell 9172) |
| NETWORKING: | 1x Intel WG82579V PCIe Gigabit LAN |
| PORTS: | 14 x USB 2.0 ports (8 at back panel, 6 at front panel) 4 x USB 3.0 ports (2 at back panel, 2 at front panel) 2 x eSATA port 1 x RJ45 LAN connectors 1 x Audio port with 5 audio jacks 1 x SPDIF Output(Optical) 1 x BIOS Button 1 x O.C. Button 1 x IEEE1394 port |
| AUDIO: | Realtek ALC898 HD CODEC |
| FORM FACTOR: | ATX Form Factor (305 mm x 264 mm) |
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CPU Performance Results
We spent a couple of weeks with the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 before beginning our performance testing, running various configurations and CPUs, and checking hardware compatibility. We verified our power consumption numbers using various different power supplies, and played a few hours of games with some members of the TPU community to get an overall feel for the board and to verify stability. Once completed, we tore down the system, mounted our Noctua cooler and put the board through the paces.SuperPi
SuperPI serves as our memory-focused benchmark, being highly single-threaded. The Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 ended up on the top of the pile of all Intel products we have tested, a good showing, for sure.
wPrime
wPrime is much more CPU-focused, but memory plays its role as well. In this test, the numbers were much closer, but the GA-X79-UD5 was just a bit faster than the ECS X79R-AX.
WinRAR
Part of our motherboard benchmarking suite is the built-in benchmark that is part of the WinRAR software suite. In this test, the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 put up good numbers, however, we noticed performance a fair bit below what we noticed on the ECS X79R-AX, but also higher than the ASUS P9X79 Deluxe we looked at just a couple of weeks ago.
AIDA64
We employed AIDA64's memory bench to highlight memory bandwidth. We isolate the write performance metric as it serves as a good indicator of overall memory performance. Again the GA-X79-UD5 ended up just above the ECS X79R-AX, but only by 31 MB/s.
HandBrake Encoding
Handbrake is used for encoding testing, and provided results much similar to the previous benchmarks, with the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 sitting a nearly two FPS ahead of our previously best result.
CineBench Encoding
In Cinebench, the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 was a bit slower than the other tested Intel X79 Express products on the GPU side, but the CPU portion again showed the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 as the top performer, bar none.
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